Re: [Nautilus-list] oh, and another thing

[Thom May <thomas amxstudios com>]

At some point around Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:10:49PM -0200, Ali Abdin spaketh thusly:
> * Pavel Cisler (pavel eazel com) wrote at 23:09 on 07/09/00:
> > Thom May wrote:
> > > 
> > > Will nautilus do magic number based resolution of filetypes?
> > 
> > It already does.
> > 
> > > MIME types are all very well, but having my .corewars file show
> > > up with the coredump icon is not doing wonders for my sanity <g>
> > 
> > That's because there is no magic rule for your .corewars file and the
> > fallback extension/file name algorithm decides the file is a core file
> > instead. So what is a corewars file?
> 
> Corewars is this ALife kind of application thing :) I think a .corewar file is
> a small little program that tries to take over 'CPU/Memory' in the corewar
> program. Search for 'corewar' or 'corewars' on freshmeat ;)
Programs can be written in redcode or another language whose
name escapes me and they then are set against each other in a
kind of deathmatch. Very cool, and pretty interesting too...

Oh, and wrt the .corewars file:
thom sundiver:~$ file .corewars 
.corewars: English text

this is why i asked about magic number handling...
cheers
thom
cc etc... :-)